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In 2023, motor vehicle accidents claimed the lives of 40,901 people across the United States, the equivalent of losing 112 lives every day. An additional 2.4 million people were injured in roadway crashes. The leading cause of death? Drunk driving, responsible for 12,249 fatalities nationwide. California, America’s most populous state, is disproportionately affected. With 39.2 million residents, the state recorded 4,061 traffic-related deaths in 2023, nearly 10% of the nation’s total. Nowhere is this crisis more pronounced than in Southern California. A new analysis by Vaziri Law Group investigates fatal crash trends across the region’s five most populous counties: Los…

NewsFeedFollowers of the Bulgarian spiritual movement Universal White Brotherhood, which combines Christian and Hindu mysticism, sang and performed a meditative dance called ‘paneurhythmy’ to usher in the group’s new year.Published On 20 Aug 202520 Aug 2025

During sleep, the human brain sorts through different memories, consolidating important ones while discarding those that don’t matter. What if AI could do the same?Bilt, a company that offers local shopping and restaurant deals to renters, recently deployed several million agents with the hopes of doing just that.Bilt uses technology from a startup called Letta that allows agents to learn from previous conversations and share memories with one another. Using a process called “sleeptime compute,” the agents decide what information to store in its long-term memory vault and what might be needed for faster recall.“We can make a single update…

On Wednesday, August 27, President Lazarus Chakwera of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and former President Peter Mutharika of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) will lock horns in a live televised debate at the Bingu International Convention Centre in Lilongwe. The debate, organized by Democracy Milestone (DI)–a continental consortium of media, civil society and human rights advocates–will not just be a test of ideas. It will be a grueling 90-minute standing duel behind lecterns, complete with two short breaks. And therein lies the twist: for the first time in Malawi’s political history, the format makes standing the entirety of the…

A leading conservationist in South Africa, charged with smuggling rhino horns worth $14m (£10m), has insisted he has “nothing to hide”.In a statement, John Hume, the former owner of what is thought to be the world’s largest rhino farm, denied allegations that he trafficked the horns from South Africa to South East Asia.The 83-year-old Mr Hume and five others, including a lawyer and a game reserve manager, have appeared in court on 55 charges, including theft, money laundering and fraud. The group was allegedly part of an international rhino horn trafficking syndicate between 2017 and 2024, prosecutors said.Mr Hume and…

The Greater Accra Regional Hospital (GARH-Ridge) has condemned a case of assault on its staff by relatives and friends of an accident victim seeking care at the facility over the weekend. According to it, the actions of relatives of the patient endangered staff and patients at the facility, undermining service delivery at a point. “Their overwhelming presence disrupted the smooth delivery of care, caused unnecessary tension and even threatened for safety of our clinicians. In the process, one of our dedicated staff was assaulted and this unacceptable act resulted in the temporary halt in service delivery,” a statement issued yesterday…

Brentford have turned down Newcastle’s improved bid of £40m for striker Yoane Wissa.The Magpies were proposing a £35m initial fee plus a further £5m in add-ons.Newcastle reopened talks with Brentford on Wednesday but sources told BBC Sport that the latest bid fell below the Bees’ valuation of Wissa.It is understood Wissa held talks with Brentford’s owner Matthew Benham on Tuesday, a development that prompted the discussions.The Magpies’ previous bid for the 28-year-old was worth up to £30m.Earlier this week, Wissa removed all association with Brentford from his Instagram account, external as his future took a fresh twist.The DR Congo forward…

The Made by Google 2025 event is finally happening, notably before Apple’s hardware event is expected to take place in September.  On Wednesday, the tech giant debuted its Pixel 10 series, a new foldable, the Pixel Watch 4, the second generation of the cost-friendly A-Series earbuds, generative AI capabilities with Gemini, and more. Get ready for a Gemini boost Image Credits:Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty Images Google already dropped several AI-related updates at its developer conference in May, but the company demonstrated more Gemini features during the Pixel 10 event. In a recent YouTube video promoting the new devices, Google…

Trump Announces Kennedy Center Honorees. Applause Pending Traditionally, the announcement of the Kennedy Center Honors is a low-key affair — recipients are normally revealed each summer with a no-frills press release. Not this time. Shattering precedent (yet again), President Trump — who earlier this year anointed himself chairman and fired much of the center’s advisory committee, replacing them with allies like ex-spy chief Richard Grenell and MAGA publisher Sergio Gor — staged an Apprentice-style spectacle, unveiling his picks with an unwieldy, nearly hourlong press conference that, as usual, raised more questions than it answered. For starters, will Trump, as he…

US government documents obtained by CBS had said Trump signed deals with Uganda and Honduras to take foreign deportees.A senior Ugandan official has denied media reports saying that the country had agreed to take in people deported from the United States, saying it lacked the facilities to accommodate them.Citing internal US government documents, CBS News reported on Tuesday that Washington had reached deportation deals with Uganda and Honduras as part of its drive to step up expulsions of migrants to countries where they do not have citizenship.“To the best of my knowledge, we have not reached such an agreement,” the…